CPU Cooler fan mod?

[Phaihn]

Took apart an cpu cooler that i got and put a bigger and better fan onto it.

[370forlife]

Re: CPU Cooler fan mod?

Might want to put a few zipties to hold it onto something, too.

Hot glue + heatsink = fan that constantly falls off and makes grinding noises. I hot glued a 92mm delta fan onto the cooler for my xeon 3.2, and it just kept falling right off. I zip tied it on now, and its been going for 6 months straight.

[Phaihn]

Re: CPU Cooler fan mod?

Might want to put a few zipties to hold it onto something, too.

Hot glue + heatsink = fan that constantly falls off and makes grinding noises. I hot glued a 92mm delta fan onto the cooler for my xeon 3.2, and it just kept falling right off. I zip tied it on now, and its been going for 6 months straight.

Oh i didnt think of that thanks.

[Wizard]

Re: CPU Cooler fan mod?

Have you considered using the case fan and a duct around the heatsink to pull air from inside to out or blown in? more efficient and not as high rpm & noise.

The set up is blocking too much fins and most of flow is aorund first 1 cm of fan tips. Center is not as much in flow.

I investigated this in depth long ago. Bare fan blowing at heatsink without anything between heatsink and fan itself is effective. Ditto to ducting around heatsink of this type to a fan about inch or more apart gives air flow to even out and go thorugh heatsink evenly.

Cheers, Wizard

[Phaihn]

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I might try that

[Phaihn]

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Only problem will be catching the duck.

[Phaihn]

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Also i notice with this thing is it goes on way to tight and really smooshes the cpu paste

[Phaihn]

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Concept 2

[370forlife]

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That looks better, especially since you have it pulling air instead of pushing. In my opinion, this always seems to move more air.

[Phaihn]

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That looks better, especially since you have it pulling air instead of pushing. In my opinion, this always seems to move more air.

[lucky13]

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See that the fan is on the bottom of your shield and is pulling air out downwards, is this an efficient way? Have you checked the CPU temp between this design and your original design?

[Phaihn]

Re: CPU Cooler fan mod?

See that the fan is on the bottom of your shield and is pulling air out downwards, is this an efficient way? Have you checked the CPU temp between this design and your original design?

Only way it will fit.

but i did add to it.

Well before with the way that fan heatsint was setup by defoult it was running in around 40 to 45 c

Now its down to 36 C

[Phaihn]

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I think my original design would not have fitted in my case without hitting all the wires nearby.

[Phaihn]

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Now that i put the case door back on its down to 35c

[ratdude747]

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nice. sulling air is good. i did that to my schythe katina and the rpm's stay down in the <1000 range.

[Phaihn]

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But i like High RPMs.

[Phaihn]

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http://www.arctic-cooling.com/catalo...C1_42&x=15&y=9

Heres what the orignal Cooler woulda looked like.

[ratdude747]

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But i like High RPMs.

me too. im using RPMs as a reference point. but with FaH running it is on full blast. not fun when your exhaust is the old pwm fan fom the crap cooler it came with. loud but effective. having the side panel off does that too.

[Phaihn]

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me too. im using RPMs as a reference point. but with FaH running it is on full blast. not fun when your exhaust is the old pwm fan fom the crap cooler it came with. loud but effective. having the side panel off does that too.

Heres temp in the morning when i got up.

[bgavin]

Re: CPU Cooler fan mod?

Those are excellent temps.
What is the room ambient?

My gripe with cross flow fans is the lack of cooling on the VRM.
This violates the Intel design spec, which requires cooling for the VRM.

I bought an IR temp gun, just so I can monitor VRM temps on all the boards I service. Quite a nifty toy.. you shine it everywhere, and it tells you the temps.
My wife wanted to take it out for her Ghost Hunter night with the girls, but I said no. The last thing I need is for one of my nice toys/tools to get screwed up at a party.

If you run boards with heat pipe cooling to the VRM, i.e. Gigabyte UD3 boards, the downdraft becomes a non-issue.